Start up power at ICREA!
Two ICREA spin offs obtain funding from H2020 SME support instrument. The entrepreneurs Laura Soucek (ICREA at VHIO) and Roger Gomis (ICREA at IRB) have both secured a bunch of money from H2020 SME instrument this week. Their two companies are attacking different aspects of cancer tumors. Inbiomotion, Roger’s company is testing a platform to […]
Debate “Europe and the Middle East are condemned to fight”
Miguel A. González Ballester, ICREA at the UPF, is one of the organisers of a series of debates involving alumni and external people of the Oxford University Alumni Society covering different topics (much like the ICREA Colloquia). The next one will be on February the 18th at the CIDOB Foundation. Further information can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/debate-europe-and-the-middle-east-are-condemned-to-fight-tickets-20987893354.
Ines Domingo and Cedric Boeckx, today at EYE Catalunya openning
E.Y.E. Catalunya is a project led by Patricia Caicedo where creators of arts, culture and science meet to exchange their views and to explore the boundaries of creation from Catalonia Come or follow by streaming! http://r.mundoarts.com/eu1xi2qkm8sff.html
Premis ICREA Acadèmia 2015
Els noms dels 30 premis de l’edició 2015 ja és públic. Enguany es van presentar un total de 190 candidats i candidates, de totes les àrees de coneixement. L’ICREA Acadèmia és un incentiu per la recerca que fa el personal docent i investigador de les universitats públiques catalanes, que permet una substancial millora de la […]
Licia Verde and Raul Jimenez interviewed on U.S. TV
Licia Verde Raúl Jiménez (both ICREAs at ICC – UB) were interviewed by Yvonne Stapp for Science for the Public, a leading science show in American Public Television (PBS) in the US. These one-hour long interviews feature fascinating accounts of their vision on the universe, its origins and the relation between dark matter, dark energy […]
Massive crop of ERC PoC grants at ICREA
A total of eight Proof of Concept grants have been awarded in Catalonia by the European Research Council, five of which to ICREA Research Professors, and two more to ICREA Acadèmia awardees. Congratulations to all awardees and best of luck with their research! Here’s the complete list, with a few details. More information is available […]
Arcadi Navarro, ICREA at UPF, new Secretary of Universities and Research
The new government of Catalonia is quiclky shaping up and we are delighted to learn that ICREA Arcadi Navarro, up to now at UPF, has been appointed Secretary of Universioties and Research.The position, reporting to the Minister of Industry and Knowledge (Empresa i Coneixement) oversees the entire Catalan academic system encompassing both Higher Education and […]
Neus Sabaté impulsa una nova empresa
Neus Sabaté (ICREA a l’ICMAB-CSIC) acaba de posar en marx a una nova empresa per desenvolupar bateries de paper: FUELIUM, empresa basada en les tecnologies desenvolupades per la Neus en els darrers anys. L’empresa generará bateries sostenibles, barates i lleuegeres que revolucionaran tota la tecnologia de diagnòstic i de lab-on-a-chip. No us ho perdeu!
Talent attraction by ICREA, a major factor in research success.
Josep Joan Moreso (UPF) explains today on Studia XXI the impact of ICREA in the Catalan research system and makes a compelling case for the adoption of a similiar model by the Spanish goverment. Read the whole piece here (in Spanish)
Article by Paul Verschure in La Vanguardia
Check out this article by Paul Verschure (ICREA at UPF) published yesterday in La Vanguardia on the future of intelligent machines…
